May 2015 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

To My Civilian Friends on Memorial Day

Dear Civilian Friend, I have to tell you something about Memorial Day. You’re doing it wrong. Now don’t get upset – I know you have big plans. I’ve seen your patriotic barbecue board on Pinterest, and that flag cake really is spiffy. But the thing...

Published Fri, May 22 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

Poll: Paycheck Worries Scare Away Vacation?

Budget cuts. Paycheck squabbles. Downsizing. Unpredictable deployment schedule. … Summer vacation? With school on the verge of getting out for the year (or already out in some places) many military families are counting down the days to that magical...

Published Wed, May 27 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family, Poll

Boot Camp Teaches Spouses to Run for Office

Military spouses need to have a seat at the political table if they want the military family story to be heard. That’s the message a group of about 50 female military spouses heard at a political action bootcamp in Washington, D.C. today. “Nobody...

Published Wed, May 06 2015 9:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: FRG/Spouse Support

DoD Start Advertising Family Help On Private Sites

The Defense Department will soon begin advertising military family resources on privately owned websites, a top DoD official announced May 7. “It’s new that DoD is letting us engage in digital strategies and targeted outreach,” said...

Published Tue, May 12 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

Making Sure His Loss Was Not Empty

Although Dunn may have died, his legacy has not. I have made perpetuating his memory his my mission. As long as people remember Lance Cpl. Kielin Terrell Dunn his loss will have not been in vain. I am Dunn’s mother. The organization TAPS, the Tragedy...

Published Sat, May 16 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

Here’s When Your Commissary Will Get Wi-Fi

If you’re a heavy mobile Wi-Fi user or you like to download coupons while shopping, you’re probably pretty happy that the commissary system is working to join us all in the 21st century by adding Wi-Fi to their stateside stores. Commissaries...

Published Wed, May 20 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News, commissary

Memorial Day: Take Time to Remember

On Memorial Day we set aside time as a nation to remember those who fell in service to our country. “We will never forget,” we say, and yet for almost every day of the year the truth is that we get caught up in the mundane details of our lives...

Published Mon, May 25 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SurvivorBUZZ

Commissary Changes: The Only Update You Need

We’ve come to that special time of year where lawmakers have had their individual says about our collective military benefit fate — and things are about to get real. Early every year the President releases his budget request for the year following...

Published Fri, May 29 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News, commissary

GI Bill Transfer Came Down to ‘Do Spouses Serve?’

Over the last few months we’ve taken the opportunity to explain some of the proposed benefits cuts to you — while letting you weigh in with what you think the best outcome may be through polls. In these polls we generally offer some solutions...

Published Tue, May 05 2015 5:30 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

DoD Keeps Tutor.com Freebie

A Defense Department program that gives free tutoring services to the dependents of service members will keep going until at least the end of March, 2016. The program with Tutor.com gives one-on-one help to basically any active duty child K-12 as well...

Published Sat, May 09 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: kids

Why Memorial Day Isn’t For You

For those of you in uniform, there’s an easy test to determine if “Memorial Day” is for you: are you currently reading this article? If you answered “yes,” then you and your family may wish to hold the (much deserved) self...

Published Thu, May 14 2015 5:34 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SurvivorBUZZ

Widow: Honor the Lost by Serving the Living

The first few years following my sweet husband’s death, I would not have been capable of doing this project. It was too raw and too close. The pain needed the covering of time and distance. What I needed was the desire to change how this day made...

Published Tue, May 19 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SurvivorBUZZ

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Wife Handbook

I met my new friend April in the strangest of places — the Facebook comments of an Ask Ms. Vicki column. The topic was one that was sure to draw responses: the wife of an enlisted soldier had written in because she had been asked to be the “pourer” at...

Published Sun, May 03 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: FRG/Spouse Support

Why Do We Keep Deploying? There Is No Answer

My kids and I just took my husband to the airport for a yet another deployment. We dropped him off the curb. There was no ceremony, no send off, no acknowledgement that we were about to, yet again, embark on The Unhappy Days. But we knew — even...

Published Sat, May 23 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

Here’s Why You Should Marry Him, MilSo

Dear Military Spouse To Be: Just like a woman awaiting to give birth for the first time, you aren’t truly ready for military life. You can’t possibly know how much your heart can love, and conversely, how much it can ache. Recently one of my favorite...

Published Thu, May 28 2015 5:32 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

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To My Civilian Friends on Memorial Day

Poll: Paycheck Worries Scare Away Vacation?

Boot Camp Teaches Spouses to Run for Office

DoD Start Advertising Family Help On Private Sites

Making Sure His Loss Was Not Empty

Here’s When Your Commissary Will Get Wi-Fi

Memorial Day: Take Time to Remember

Commissary Changes: The Only Update You Need

GI Bill Transfer Came Down to ‘Do Spouses Serve?’

DoD Keeps Tutor.com Freebie

Why Memorial Day Isn’t For You

Widow: Honor the Lost by Serving the Living

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Wife Handbook

Why Do We Keep Deploying? There Is No Answer

Here’s Why You Should Marry Him, MilSo